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"For over a century, drag has been an unstoppable force in Milwaukee nightlife. On June 7, 1884, "The Only Leon" brought the fine art of female impersonation to the Grand Opera Hall, launching a proud local legacy that continues today at This Is It, La Cage, Hamburger Mary's, D.I.X. and innumerable other venues. Historians Michail Takach and BJ Daniels recognize that today's LGBTQ liberties were born from the strength, resilience, and resistance of yesterday's gender non-conforming pioneers. This is a long overdue celebration of those stories, including high-rolling hustler of the Fourth Ward "Badlands" Frank Blunt, over-the-top dinner theater drag superstar of the 1950s Adrian Ames, and "It Kid" Jamie Gays, first-ever Miss Gay Milwaukee and Latin community hero." --

Drag shows --- Drag balls --- Drag queens

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"Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life is an assemblage of fragments that collectively tell stories about a diverse group of artists and activists for whom drag serves as inspiration, method, object, and aim.Methodologically grounded in ethnography, Dragging incorporates auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research, teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly widespread desire to be led.One of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely personal approach, Dragging is an ethnography of artists and activists." --

Drag shows. --- Drag balls --- Drag queens. --- Drag kings. --- Sexual minorities. --- Minorités sexuelles. --- Drag balls. --- Drag kings. --- Drag queens. --- Drag shows. --- Sexual minorities. --- History --- 1900-1999 --- New York (State)

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"Drag Queens and Beauty Queens is the portrait of the gay community in Atlantic City seen through the lens of two beauty pageants, the iconic Miss America Pageant and its drag counterpart, the Miss'd America Pageant. Both originated and evolved in this oldest of America's resort towns. Beauty pageants are anything but trivial. As public spectacle, pageantry allows for the expression of oppositional values in a context that appears inconsequential, but they are actually highly charged performances of gender, deeply rooted in the social, political, and economic ideals contested within the culture of the time. Both the Miss America pageant and the Miss'd America pageant lie at the heart of gay life in Atlantic City, which centered around the once vibrant and now abandoned New York Avenue. The book contends that the Miss America pageant is admired by the gay community there in general and the gay male and drag community in particular because of its long-standing social and economic interactions with the town, and is understood by gays as essentially a camp performance. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens illustrates the immense influence that the Miss America Pageant had on the construction of gay identity in Atlantic City, and how gay Atlantic City has in turn "queered" the Miss America Pageant"--

Beauty contests --- Gay community --- Drag shows --- Drag balls --- Drag queens --- Drag kings --- Miss America Pageant. --- Miss'd America Pageant.

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This edited volume is an exploration of the social, cultural, political, and commercial implications of the trailblazing reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race. Going beyond mere analysis of the show itself, the contributors interrogate the ways RuPaul's Drag Race has affected queer representation in media, examining its audience, economics, branding, queer politics, and every point in between. Since its groundbreaking and subversive entry into the reality television complex in 2009, the show has had profound effects on drag and the cultures that surround it. Bringing together scholarship across disciplines--including cultural anthropology, media studies, linguistics, sociology, marketing, and theater and performance studies--the collection offers rich academic analysis of Ru Paul's Drag Race and its lasting influence on fan cultures, queer representation, and the very fabric of drag as an art form in popular cultural consciousness.

Reality television programs --- Émissions de téléréalité --- Drag queens on television. --- Travestis --- Drag performance --- Sexual minorities on television. --- Minorités sexuelles --- Drag queens --- Travestis --- African American entertainers. --- Artistes noirs américains. --- Social aspects. --- Société --- À la télévision. --- Social aspects. --- À la télévision. --- Occupations. --- Professions. --- RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- )

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Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a "labyrinth" of gendering, the practice of men playing women's roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata's theatrical gender "impersonation" has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.

Kabuki --- Actors --- Female impersonators --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- History. --- Persons